Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michel Montignac preaches that you can eat fabulously well while losing weight . |
| 2 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 3 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 4 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 5 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 6 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 7 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 8 | I can do no better than to quote Thos . |
| 9 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 10 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 11 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 12 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 13 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 14 | Accidents , which can happen more easily when intoxicated . |
| 15 | Thus the parents can reward more often than punish which will offset any of the avoidance side-effects of punishment that the restraint method may create . |
| 16 | They can navigate home even when taken to the release point under such conditions as would make learning the way out impossible . |
| 17 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 18 | You can go so far as to say that any words which produce good music constitute a good libretto . |
| 19 | You can go so far as to say that I mean , you will be safe in saying that if your , that as your benefit is suspended your income support for you , not for your family but for you , will be reduced . |